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Mount Everest
 Rescued Italian climbers tell of ordealKarl Unterkircher, one of the world's top mountaineers, died when a bridge of snow masking a crevasse on Pakistan's "Killer Mountain" gave way under his tentative step, his surviving colleagues said Friday.
Stephanie Esworthy: St. Joseph to the real estate rescue
In my kitchen, gazing at steep staircases, I wondered whether it was worth the Mount Everest-like climb, listening to my snapping, popping kneecaps, to retrieve eyeglasses I had forgotten upstairs. Unlike Sir Edmund Hillary, I decided it was time to stop climbing and make a last move.
Group sues to ban DDT-related pesticide
Environmental and farmworker groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to try to outlaw the use of a pesticide related to DDT, which was banned in 1972.
A confident Ironman
Anybody can race a triathlon, says Norm Coleman, a 63-year-old cancer researcher from Chevy Chase. But what got him hooked on the grueling sport was one of his patients.
China says it is not politicizing the Olympics
China on Thursday denied injecting politics into the Beijing Olympics despite a rare rebuke from the International Olympic Committee over remarks by a Chinese official about Tibet and the Dalai Lama. |
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